Rebirth in a Book: The Road to Breakthrough

"Well, if you find the right one, then go ahead."

"Hey, you, just know what's going on."

The two did not continue the topic, and when they were halfway to Doctor Liu's house, Doctor Liu sent Zhang Yun back. He took the medicine box and hurried back alone.

At four o'clock, the captain's loudspeaker sounded the call for assembly. The villagers got up one after another, but Yu Congcong lay lazily in bed, with no intention of getting up at all.

Grandma got up early and prepared breakfast and dry food pancakes. At this time of year in previous years, Dad would come back, and the work of delivering the public grain was done by Dad and Tiezhu. This year, both of them could not go because of work. The team leader asked Yu Congcong to go with her and just be a representative. Anyway, the public grain is paid collectively now. Those who go will get work points, and those who don’t go will get none. Paying public grain is also a tiring job, which requires moving and lifting. Yu Congcong just relied on the care of the team leader to go through the motions and build relationships with the people who checked and collected the grain. Her identity is still very impressive. Her father works in the armed forces, her fiancé is a public security officer, and she also works as the political commissar of the commune. The people who collect the grain will give her some face and will not deliberately embarrass her.

Yu Congcong really didn't want to leave her beloved bed, but paying taxes was a big deal and there must be no mistakes.

Yu Congcong struggled to get up from the bed, washed up slowly, then picked up the pancakes that her grandmother had carefully prepared and slowly walked towards the village office.

In the village office, the team leader was directing the team members to load the trucks in an orderly manner. Today, two mule carts, two ox carts, and four carts were dispatched, totaling eight vehicles. The group set off towards the commune in the town in a mighty manner.

The team was quite spectacular. Each mule and ox cart had two people assigned to manage it, one to pull the animals and the other to watch over the grain to prevent it from falling. The carts had half as many people as the others, so each cart needed four people, two to pull the cart and the other two to push the cart from behind and watch over the grain to prevent it from falling. In this way, almost every household in the village contributed people.

At Widow Wang's home, Yuanbao also participated in the task of delivering public grain. Widow Wang did not sleep for long before getting up to prepare breakfast and dry food for her son at noon.

Su Ting had been sleeping soundly, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Doctor Liu came to remove the needle from Su Ting at a little after four o'clock, and told Yuan Zhe to send him to the county hospital.

Yuan Zhe was worried that he would not be able to handle the work by himself, so he asked Hou Bao and Feng De for help. The mule carts and ox carts in the village were all occupied. Yu Congcong and Zhang Yun lent them their bicycles.

Yu Congcong could only walk today. This grain delivery team was almost entirely made up of men, with her being the only girl, so she stood out in the team.

The son of the second-in-command of the Revolutionary Committee was waiting at the grain collection site early in the morning with two of his lackeys. He wanted to see what his opponent Yu Congcong looked like.

My father said that this family was very difficult to deal with, and he wanted to see how difficult this family was. Since they didn't buy into the Zhang family's account, since the Liu family fell, the Zhang family is now the top leader in this town.

"Brother Zhang, will we cause trouble for Director Zhang by doing this?"

Zhang Mai, the son of Director Zhang, the second-in-command of the Revolutionary Committee, replied arrogantly: "What's there to be afraid of? Who dares to sue me?"

The two lackeys stopped talking, and the three of them just waited quietly.

"Brother Zhang, it seems that a grain delivery team has arrived."

"Well, it's quite early. Which production brigade is it from?"

"Brother Zhang, I'll go take a look."

"Well, let's see if it is the Lihua Village Production Team. There is no need to report the others." Zhang Mai was not interested in other production teams. He was only interested in the Lihua Village Production Team.

"Okay, Brother Zhang." The lackey responded.

Although Lihua Village started early and had a mule cart leading the way, Lihua Village is located in a remote area after all, so at this moment Lihua Village is still halfway.

Yuan Zhe was riding Su Ting and Hou Bao, and Feng De and the others were ahead of the team. Yuan Zhe was worried that Su Ting would wake up and he couldn't control his emotions, so he kept riding his bike desperately, and his bike was sparking. Hou Bao and Feng De took turns riding their bikes, desperately trying to catch up.

"Hou Bao, I thought Zhang Yun was riding fast enough, but I didn't expect there was someone faster. I can't do it anymore, it's your turn." Feng De said breathlessly. His feet were sore from pedaling that he couldn't even feel whether he was stepping on the board.

"Okay, we're a bit far away." Hou Bao agreed calmly. The two of them had already kept a certain distance from Yuan Zhe, and he was worried that something might happen to them and he wouldn't be able to help.

After Hou Bao and Feng De switched places, Hou Bao carried Feng De and sped up to catch up.

In the grain delivery team, the team leader led the way in front, and accountant Fu Yu followed behind. Fu Yu was in the middle to prevent the livestock team from being too far away from the human team.

Yu Congcong walked with Zhang Yun, who was in charge of the second mule cart. Yu Congcong, Tiezhu and Zhang Yun exchanged a bag of rice bran with a production team during the famine. At that time, the mule was so hungry that it was just skin and bones. Most people here used mules for labor and did not eat mule meat. So mules were worthless at that time. Yu Congcong saw that the people in the production team were so hungry that they could not afford to buy mules, but some old people kept trying to dissuade them. And the mule was just skin and bones with little meat, so they exchanged the mule back and planted crops.

Today, this mule is fat and strong, no worse than the mule in Tiezhu's family, but it has a stubborn temper and always needs Yu Congcong to coax it, otherwise it will refuse to work when its stubborn temper comes out.

Yu Congcong was a little tired and asked, "Brother Zhang Yun, how far is it?"

Zhang Yun looked up and said, "It's not far. At this speed, we'll be there in half an hour."

"There's still half an hour left. I never thought it was so far before!" Yu Congcong couldn't walk anymore. This was the first time she had walked to town. In the past, her father and Tiezhu carried her in their arms or on their backs, or in a mule cart. Since they got a bicycle, they carried her. She rarely walked alone, and even when she was alone, she rode a bicycle. Yu Congcong realized that the town was quite far from the village.

"Congcong, can't you walk anymore?" Zhang Yun noticed that Yu Congcong's pace had slowed down.

"Well, a little, but I will hold on." Yu Congcong assured weakly.

"Congcong, why don't you go sit on the mule cart!" Zhang Yun suggested.

Yu Congcong looked at the pile of grain on the mule cart and shook his head in rejection.

Zhang Yun looked at the tall grain and thought it was a bit high and not safe. He stopped trying to persuade her and turned to see the mule, so he said, "Cong Cong, you can ride the mule!"